Online collections containing books, records etc. on Burma/Myanmar
Many/most of these will eventually be placed in the Library, but in the meantime, here are some of the sources... Any fresh sources welcome -- please send lists to darnott@iporolink.ch

Google has scanned many thousands of books and placed them on this website, but for copyright reasons the full texts are limited. To access available full texts, put your initial search term, e.g. Burma, Myanmar, Burmah, Birma, Ava, Burmese, Karen, Mon etc. in the first Search box, click on Search then on "Search tools". Click on the "Any view" drop-down menu and choose "Full view". This will provide you with the full texts available, but some can only be read online can be downloaded. Or explore other options.

More than 1,000,000 items...125 search results for Subject: Burma - Full view....Copy of search results in Alternate URL.....The texts can be viewed on screen, but a "partner login" is required to download more than the current page

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harley writes: "the portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales (persee) provides free access to the contents of the Bulletin de l'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient and Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale and 43 other French-language political, linguistic, ethnological, etc., etc., etc., journals as pdf files. Follow this link:
http://www.persee.fr/
A search for Birmanie, for example, lists 960 articles, including old materials by Duroiselle, such as "Note sur la géographie apocryphe de la Birmanie, à propos de la légende de Pûrna" (1905), and up to 2003, including for example, Anatole-Roger Peltier's "Regards sur la littérature classique khün de Birmanie" (2000).
You can also go through the BEFEO issue by issue, from 1901 until 2003. Start by cutting and pasting the following link:
http://www.persee.fr/showIssue.do?issueKey=befeo_0336-1519_1901_num_1_1

Several hundred full-text books covering or with references to Burma. Search for Ava, Burm* Burmah, Burmese, Karen, Kachin, Myanmar etc... Read online or, if you are clever or have special software, you might be able to download. Use the Search Help page at http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/s/sea/help.php

"There's a vast range of online literature beyond what we index individually on The Online Books Page. Below we list some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized...".....Large-scale repositories...Significant indexes and search aids...Significant smaller-scale archives...Foreign Languages...Specialty Archives